The Traditional Ecological Knowledge of the Solega A Linguistic Perspective

Ethnobiology The Traditional Ecological Knowledge of the Solega Aung Si A Linguistic Perspective ...

Ethnobiology Series Editors Robert Voeks John Richard Stepp More information about this series at http://www.springer.com/series ...

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Aung Si The Traditional Ecological Knowledge of the Solega A Linguistic Perspective ...

Ethnobiology ISBN 978-3-319-24679-6 ISBN 978-3-319-24681-9 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-24681- Library of Congress Control Numb ...

This book is dedicated to the memory of Heddini Basavegowda of Keredimba Village—respected Solega elder, tammaḍi , and teacher. ...

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vii Acknowledgements Foremost in my thoughts are the Solega people who shared so much of their time, knowledge, and culture with ...

viii For providing many hours of editorial support during the last stages of manu- script preparation, I thank my friend Vincent ...

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1 Introduction Contents 1.1 A Brief Introduction to the Field Simultaneously 1.1.1 Documenting Language and Traditional Knowled ...

© Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016 1 A. Si, The Traditional Ecological Knowledge of the Solega, Ethnobiology, ...

2 1.1 A Brief Introduction to the Field The fi eld of ethnobiology has come far in a short period of time, and currently engages ...

3 1.1.2 Defi ning ‘Ethnobiology’ ‘Ethnobiology’ is practiced in many guises by researchers with diverse skill sets and academic ...

4 discusses how a variety of factors—ecological, genetic and anthropogenic—have conspired to minimise the visible morphological ...

5 the documentation of TEK and language appears all the more puzzling when one considers the many inter-disciplinary enterprises ...

6 ‘general principles’ have since come to be viewed largely as cross-linguistic univer- sals, with Berlin himself embracing the ...

7 1.3 Questions In many ways, this book is a reaction to the research agenda set by the fi ndings and predictions presented in B ...